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How powerful SHOULD a pfsence be

k1ng_alex
By k1ng_alex
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I am thinking of building a pfsence router and wondering how powerful SHOULD it be.

I am not going for overkill just something to handle 50mb/s.

is some i3 with 4GB of ram good enough?

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5 minutes ago, k1ng_alex said:

I am thinking of building a pfsence router and wondering how powerful SHOULD it be.

I am not going for overkill just something to handle 50mb/s.

is some i3 with 4GB of ram good enough?

http://www.firewallhardware.it/en/pfsense_selection_and_sizing.html

aside from all that 2gb of ram is enough if im not mistaken 

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1 hour ago, k1ng_alex said:

I am thinking of building a pfsence router and wondering how powerful SHOULD it be.

I am not going for overkill just something to handle 50mb/s.

is some i3 with 4GB of ram good enough?

Just 50 Mbps of throughput? Way more than good enough.

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A Broadcom 250MHz processor used in the wrt54g routers from over 10 years ago is capable of full NAT at roughly 60-70 megabits/second with a grand total of 16mb of RAM.  And that's a relatively inefficient ARM CPU.

 

A modern i3, good lord, you could probably do NAT and firewall/routing on at least a few gigabits/sec of normal traffic with that. 

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